Corrections and clarifications

• Pavan Sukhdev, head of a UN investigation into how to stop the destruction of the natural world, should not have been described in an article as a former adviser to the Indian government. He has never held that role. He was wrongly quoted as saying: "The purpose of a corporation is to be selfish." His actual words were: "The purpose of a corporation is its own self-interest." (Soulless firms a cancer on environment – UN, 12 July, page 5.)

• A commentary about the government's budget measures predicted: "The cutting of 10% off the weekly £65 jobseeker's allowance for anyone out of work for a year may become the equivalent of Gordon Brown's 10p tax-rate abolition." This particular cut is, rather, to the housing benefit (also known as local housing allowance) of those on the jobseeker's allowance for a year. With the average housing benefit at about £84 a week, a 10% cut would represent a bigger loss than a cut to the jobseeker's allowance. (Public backing for cuts will dissolve when reality strikes, 26 June, page 33).

• Editing changes to an article about the Church of England's debate on women bishops resulted in a proposal put forward by the archbishops of Canterbury and York being confused with a voluntary code of practice they sought to amend. The archbishops suggested that the church's General Synod should legislate to provide a special class of bishop to look after parishes that do not wish to have female bishops. (What God would want, 12 July, page 25.)

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